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BRITISH CENTRAL AFRICA 
A MALE REEDBUCK 
palatable meat. I do not think the Reedbuck is met with on high mountains 
or that it even cares much for hilly country, but it is very abundant on elevated 
plateaux of gentle undulating surface. Ordinarily it frequents the grassy plains 
and answers to its name by affecting beds of high reeds. On the Nyasa- 
Tanganyika plateau one used to 
see it with its head just appear¬ 
ing out of the high grass and 
tall yellow ground orchids of the 
genus Lissochilus} 
There are, as I have said, 
five species of Cobus , or water- 
buck,to wit:—(i) the well-known 
South African waterbuck ( Cobus 
ellipsiprymnus) ; (2) the nearly 
allied Cobus craws/iqyi ; (3) the 
Lechwe (Cobus lecJiwe ) ; (4) the 
Puku (Cobus vardoni) ; and (5) 
the Senga Cobus (Cobus sen- 
ganus ) also discovered by Mr. 
Crawshay. The common water- 
buck is almost the largest 
member of the genus. The 
female, as is the case throughout 
all the Cervicaprines, is without 
horns. Crawshay’s waterbuck, 
which is found in the Mweru 
district and probably thence 
A MALE REEDBUCK’S HEAD 
1 See illustration, page 208 in Chapter 
VIII. 
